10 Wrestlers You Won't Believe Never Had A Five Star Match
2. Chris Jericho
Chris Jericho made a career out of reinvention.
His work as a junior heavyweight propelled him to the mainstream consciousness, and he remained there by bulking up his physique and thoughtfully scaling back the pace of his matches to fully integrate himself into the WWF main event scene. There was little, perhaps nothing, he couldn't do; single, tags, stipulations - Jericho excelled in every environment in which he was placed.
As sensational an all-round talent Jericho was at his best, he was unfortunately prone to sloppiness. Perhaps that and his jack of all, master of none reputation factored into his never receiving the fabled five star rating.
Closest Candidate: Chris Jericho Vs. Chris Benoit, Royal Rumble 2001.
The Intercontinental Title ladder match was hugely inventive - Jericho countering Benoit's suicide dive with a chair shot to the face does not lose its shock value, even a decade and a half later - but those innovative spots were built to organically and woven into an excellent story predicated on Jericho' injured shoulder. Unlike some modern day iterations, none of it was contrived. The ladder was never positioned purely to set up the next spot so much as those spots were worked around it.
Maybe the pervasive nature of the stipulation itself contributed to the ****3/4 rating. In itself, it is a masterpiece.